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“... a powerful comic novelist. Kington Aimes must look to his laurels. The circumstances surrounding John KennedyToole’s fictions are as pure American Gothic as even Flannery O’Connor could devise. Without any of his friends suspecting he had authorial ambitions, Toole wrote A ...”

“... I take first, however, a novel which this drawing fits in a more simple and literal way. John KennedyToole was dead some years when A Confederacy of Dunces appeared, having, so the Foreword records, killed himself in depression at his failure to get the book published. One cannot think him wrong to have ...”

“... and they do keep cropping up. I think there’s more than a little Pynchon floating around John KennedyToole, whose A Confederacy of Dunces is a book nearly as bloated as its protagonist; Don DeLillo’s social, um, satires owe more than a little to Pynchon’s work; and in a recent essay in Harper’s magazine ...”